The newspaper reported that the other top candidate is currently an adjunct professor at Assumption College in Worcester and an interim superintendent.

Williams-Harper is currently Beecher's Head Start program specialist and former superintendent. She went on a medical leave in 2009, one day after walking out of a board of education meeting after an argument with the president of the Beecher Board of Education.

Site visits by committee members are next for the two finalists, according to the report, which also said the committee may only see Beecher in a "video visit."

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